Glasgow City Council revoke almost a third of challenged parking fines

Almost a third of Glasgow parking fines are revoked when they're challenged. (Image: Victoria Stewart Daily Record and Sunday Mail)

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Almost a third of Glasgow parking fines are revoked when they're challenged.

Glasgow City Council dished out 147,945 parking tickets in one year, according to research obtained through a Freedom of Information request.

Around 12 per cent of those parking penalty charge notices (PCN) were appealed, and of that amount, almost a third (30%) were successfully appealed.

When drivers are issued with a PCN, they get 28 days to pay, and if it's done within the first two weeks of receiving the ticket, you only have to pay up £30 rather than the full £60 (the value of the PCN according to the law).

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Car specialist AMT's, general manager Ian Wright said: “The fact that such a high number of appeals for tickets are successful shows how lax councils and traffic wardens can be.

“These fines could be cancelled for several things, such as poor signage confusing drivers, worn-out yellow lines, or simply traffic wardens being far too keen to dish out the dreaded yellow envelopes when parking restrictions don’t apply.

“It must be far more costly for a local authority to issue this number of tickets and then cancel so many - let alone if they are then appealed formally in court - compared to simply improving the signage or giving wardens more training. Surely, that should be borne in mind for the sake of the public purse.”